G20

Events

The Asian Bureau of Economic Research, The Australian National University (ABER) co-hosted with the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry, Japan (RIETI) and Institute for International Trade, The University of Adelaide (IIT) the Think 20 (T20) Task Force on Trade, Investment and Globa

At the end of 2013, Australia will take up the chair of the G20. This comes at a time when the G20 is criticised for lacking direction, after leading the successful coordination of fiscal policy at the height of the global financial crisis.

The Australia-China Dialogue on the G20 and Regional Initiatives was organised to bring together Chinese and Australian academics and civil servants to exchange ideas on the organisation and operation of the G20 and on the G20’s agenda.

EAF articles

Author: David Nellor, Jakarta
Proposals for an Asian Monetary Fund (AMF) dominated corridor conversations at the 1997 IMF–World Bank annual meetings in Hong Kong. The Asian financial crisis had erupted a few months earlier and was engulfing the region.

Author: Darcie Draudt, John Hopkins University
The most important task for the Trump–Moon summit last week was to foster a stable and favourable relationship between the two leaders. Recent history has shown that presidential mismatch between the two allies has sometimes led to rocky bilateral coordination.

Author: Adam Triggs, ANU
The G7 is falling apart. Russia has been isolated. The United Kingdom has isolated itself. Germany continues a tense relationship with much of Europe. The NATO alliance has been rocked and the future of the European Union remains uncertain. The United States appears determined to oppose its oldest allies on climate, trade, immigration and perhaps still on Russia.

Author: Editors, East Asia Forum
The Asian financial crisis of 1997–98 was a huge turning point in Asia. Asia’s confidence in the IMF and the US leadership to help through global institutions in a time of crisis was seriously shaken. The disillusionment was deepest in Tokyo, Seoul, Bangkok and Jakarta — Beijing was then an innocent defender of the status quo.